But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. One area that could be very interesting is a video editing application for the iPad. Such a thing already exists on the iPhone, ReelDirector [$7.99 App Store Link] and it works surprisingly well. More after the jump….

Some additional notes on this app:

MEDIA COVERAGE

“ReelDirector is a powerful, easy-to-use, and fun iPhone app for creating videos with titles and effects.”
– tuaw

“ReelDirector beefs up iPhone 3GS’s editing capabilities”
MacWorld

This Week’s 10 Best iPhone Apps – October 23, 2009
Gizmodo

“File this one under sent from the future. ReelDirector is a pretty full-featured movie editor” … “a quite amazing demonstration of the march of technology.”
Wired.com Gadget Lab

“ReelDirector App Adds Surprisingly Capable Video Editing To The iPhone 3GS”
OhGizmo

ESSENTIALS

• Add and stitch together clips, drag-and-drop to rearrange order.
• Add text watermarks of title, opening credits and closing credits with 4 styles and 9 positions to choose from.
• Put transitions between clips to smooth or blend the change from one scene to another. With 27 transitions to choose from, create professional looking videos with ease and fun.
• Import you own music files and/or record voiceovers to create and mix soundtracks.
• Share your movies by email or save to Camera Roll where you can upload to YouTube, copy back to computer, etc.

EDITING

• Timeline: scrollable, seekable within clips, easy to arrange order
• Preview: full preview of frame at current timeline position, with watermarks and transition applied
• Record soundtracks and adjust position, volume and fade in/out
• Trim: you can keep original and go back to revise, or make a final cut
• Split: cut video into 2 or 3 clips seamlessly
• Add photo with Ken Burns effect

TITLES

• Title and multiline opening and closing credits with adjustable length
• Combine 4 styles and 9 positions to create 36 different appearance
• Gradually fade out title and opening credits, fade in closing credits

TRANSITIONS

• Cross Dissolve
• Fade Through Black/White
• Flash Through Black/White
• Blur Fade (fade out of focus)
• Blur Cross (first scene fades out of focus)
• Wipe Left/Right/Up/Down
• Wipe Soft Left/Right/Up/Down
• Wipe Blend Left/Right/Up/Down
• Push Left/Right/Up/Down
• Push Left/Right/Up/Down with Border

If this sounds like your cup of tea while we wait to see what video editing possibilities the iPad brings, check out ReelDirector on the iTunes Store.

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Kindle for iPhone is a very light download so you’ll be up and running in no time, you just need to enter your Amazon.com account details. Then you are taken into a Safari browser session to pick out books. Couple of nice features, you can download decent sized free samples of any book you’re interested in and if you have a Kindle it will automatically sync up so you have one copy on the Kindle and one for the iPhone. I chose a cookbook about making Japanese food.

Once you leave the Safari session, Kindle for iPhone automatically takes over again and your titles appear in the Home section of the application. You point to the book you want to view and it immediately jumps to the chapter index. To read a book you tap on the left side of the screen to go back a page and the right side to go forward, all very intuitive and I daresay more fun than using the physical buttons on the Kindle.

While reading you can tap once on the screen to bring up the navigation options. From top to bottom you have a link to your Home library along with the title of the current book. Then you have 5 font size settings to give your own personal trade off between legibility and amount of text per ‘page.’ Finally you have a choice of black text on white BG, white on black or a faux sepia look. You can also add bookmarks and there’s a slider to quickly jump around the pages of the book.

You can also easily view books in portrait or landscape mode by tilting your iPhone. In general the navigation is great though I couldn’t understand why pinch to zoom into the text didn’t work. Instead you have to call up the menu tab and select one of five font sizes, perhaps this is a function of Amazon’s book format that’s optimized for the Kindle. Also pictures jump out from the text clumsily, though at least you can pinch zoom those.

It’s interesting to compare the experience not only to a physical book but also to Amazon’s actual Kindle device. Compared to a book, there are obvious differences, either you much prefer looking at paper or you can handle looking at an LCD screen to read text. These days I’m thinking more and more people are completely accostumed to reading text on a screen so print may well be dead. My dad has an Amazon Kindle that I got to play with a little last Christmas. Personally it’s a toss up between the Kindle and the iPhone version:

Kindle Pros

• Much bigger screen that’s easier on the eyes and usable in direct sunlight
• Feels more book-like
• Longer battery life

iPhone Pros

• You can do a lot more than just read books, pocketable
• Can listen to music simultaneously
• Touch screen navigation feels more natural than Kindle’s many buttons

I like the idea of reading books on the iPhone but I think it would be impossible to read a lot this way. Maybe a quick sneak at a book you’re reading on a Kindle while you wait for a train, doctor’s office, etc. It’s a lot easier than trying to shoehorn 40 books into your pocket, that’s for sure and you can also make calls on it and listen to music. If you want to know a little early what reading a book on the iPad/Tablet/Slate’s screen might be like, try this out. It’s also FREE so what have you got to lose?

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This is an interesting use of the iPhone to act as a sort of remote trigger and monitor for your DSLR. It’s not quite as useful for video as it is for still but as more folks are mixing it up between stills and video at once in the studio, it could come in handy. Besides, let’s face it, who doesn’t like using their iPhone in new and cool ways. Check out DSLR Camera Remote for more info. $19.99 is a bit steep for an iPhone app, so there’s also a LITE version.

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